Recommendation for safe, offshore-hosted email?

[MannyGoldstein]

I would like to minimize the obliteration of my Fourth-Amendment rights, seems I need my email outside of the country to do that.

[woo me with science]

1. They get it on the cable out anyway.

I think.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. You can encrypt the SMTP from email client to server

Or use a web client with https like Google does. But Google then can hand our emails to the gummint.

[woo me with science]

9. Ah.

I guess I need to read some more about this.

Thanks, Manny.

[bananas]

12. You can encrypt it with PGP

which should have been built into email clients a long time ago.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/digitally-signing-and-encrypting-messages

[steve2470]

2. hmm.....good question

If you go to https://my.opera.com/community/signup/ , you can get an email account also. I am assuming that since Opera is a Norwegian company, that their mail server is also in Norway.

Of course, it's remotely possible for the Feds to contact Norway for your email but they could easily rebuff it I'm thinking. Russia is another possibility ? https://mail.yandex.com/ That's a Russian search engine/email provider, despite the .com

To be 100% sure, you might want to contact those two companies to make sure their servers are indeed located outside of the USA. Good luck.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Interesting, thanks. I don't care too much

if law enforcement gets a warrant a and asks for my email, but vacuuming everything up is atrocious.

[steve2470]

5. agree 100% about the atrocious nt

[douglas9]

6. Hushmail: why you should run the Java version

With Lavabit shut down for the time being and uncertainty whether it will get back up its feet ever again, users of the secure email service may have started to look for alternatives right away. One that is probably high up on the list is Hushmail, a long-standing email provider that is offering free and premium accounts to its users.

The free account is not really usable if you ask me, as it gets you 25 Megabyte of storage space and the requirement to log in at least once every three weeks to avoid it being shut down.

What many users do not know as well is that Hushmail is offering two different options when it comes to communication with their servers. While both use encryption to protect email from prying eyes, they differ in regards to where critical operations are executed.

If you are using the default configuration, critical passphrase and private-key operations are carried out on the Hushmail server. That's problematic as it is giving the site operators - and therefore also law enforcement and other agencies - options to decrypt user emails as they have access to the server the operations are carried out.

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/08/09/hushmail-why-you-should-run-the-java-version/

canuck

[steve2470]

7. yea I forgot about Hushmail, good service nt

[Ghost Dog]

8. A Swiss-based secure email service:

http://swissmail.org/Swissmail/home/home.asp

[gopiscrap]

11. Welcome to DU